Image Analysis and Recognition: 12th International Conference, ICIAR 2015, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, July 22-24, 2015, Proceedings

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2015, held in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, in July 2015. The 55 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: image quality assessment; image enhancement; image segmentation, registration and analysis; image coding, compression and encryption; dimensionality reduction and classification; biometrics; face description, detection and recognition; human activity recognition; robotics and 3D vision; medical image analysis; and applications Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Modelling of Subjective Radiological Assessments with Objective Image Quality Measures of Brain and Body CT Images....Pages 3-13 Blind Image Quality Assessment Through Wakeby Statistics Model....Pages 14-21 Improving Image Quality of Tiled Displays....Pages 22-29 Front Matter....Pages 31-31 Improved Non-Local Means Algorithm Based on Dimensionality Reduction....Pages 33-42 Non-local Means for Stereo Image Denoising Using Structural Similarity....Pages 43-50 Structural Similarity Optimized Wiener Filter: A Way to Fight Image Noise....Pages 51-59 Front Matter....Pages 60-68 A Real-Time Framework for Detection of Long Linear Infrastructural Objects in Aerial Imagery....Pages 69-69 Structural Representations for Multi-modal Image Registration Based on Modified Entropy....Pages 71-81 Attributed Relational Graph-Based Learning of Object Models for Object Segmentation....Pages 82-89 Label Fusion for Multi-atlas Segmentation Based on Majority Voting....Pages 90-99 Front Matter....Pages 100-106 An Optimized Selective Encryption for Video Confidentiality....Pages 107-107 Near-Lossless PCA-Based Compression of Seabed Surface with Prediction....Pages 109-118 Adaptive Weighted Neighbors Lossless Image Coding....Pages 119-128 Front Matter....Pages 129-138 Dimensionality Reduction of Proportional Data Through Data Separation Using Dirichlet Distribution....Pages 139-139 Image Categorization Using a Heuristic Automatic Clustering Method Based on Hierarchical Clustering....Pages 141-149 Semantic Scene Classification with Generalized Gaussian Mixture Models....Pages 150-158 Front Matter....Pages 159-166 Classification of Tooth Shapes for Human Identification Purposes–An Experimental Comparison of Selected Simple Shape Descriptors....Pages 167-167 Micro Genetic and Evolutionary Feature Extraction: An Exploratory Data Analysis Approach for Multispectral Iris Recognition....Pages 169-177 Biometric Analysis of Human Ear Matching Using Scale and Rotation Invariant Feature Detectors....Pages 178-185 Front Matter....Pages 186-193 Mutibiometric System Based on Game Theory....Pages 167-167 Front Matter....Pages 194-199 Head Pose Classification Using a Bidimensional Correlation Filter....Pages 201-201 Illumination Robust Facial Feature Detection via Decoupled Illumination and Texture Features....Pages 203-209 Posed Facial Expression Detection Using Reflection Symmetry and Structural Similarity....Pages 210-217 Improving the Recognition of Occluded Faces by Means of Two-dimensional Orthogonal Projection into Local Subspaces....Pages 218-228 Hybrid Age Estimation Using Facial Images....Pages 229-238 Unsupervised Sub-graph Selection and Its Application in Face Recognition Techniques....Pages 239-246 Front Matter....Pages 247-256 Dynamic Perceptual Attribute-Based Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Gesture Recognition....Pages 257-257 The Bag of Micro-Movements for Human Activity Recognition....Pages 259-268 An Efficient Method for Extracting Key-Frames from 3D Human Joint Locations for Action Recognition....Pages 269-276 Front Matter....Pages 277-284 A Simple View-Based Software Architecture for an Autonomous Robot Navigation System....Pages 285-285 A Comparison of Feature Detectors and Descriptors in RGB-D SLAM Methods....Pages 287-296 Accuracy Improvement for Depth from Small Irregular Camera Motions and Its Performance Evaluation....Pages 297-305 Fast and Robust Algorithm for Fundamental Matrix Estimation....Pages 306-315 Front Matter....Pages 316-322 Biologically-Inspired Supervised Vasculature Segmentation in SLO Retinal Fundus Images....Pages 323-323 Assessment of Retinal Vascular Changes Through Arteriolar-to-Venular Ratio Calculation....Pages 325-334 Automatic Segmentation of Vertebrae in Ultrasound Images....Pages 335-343 Towards an Automatic Clinical Classification of Age-Related Macular Degeneration....Pages 344-351 Optical Flow Based Approach for Automatic Cardiac Cycle Estimation in Ultrasound Images of the Carotid....Pages 352-359 Statistical Textural Distinctiveness in Multi-Parametric Prostate MRI for Suspicious Region Detection....Pages 360-367 Front Matter....Pages 368-376 Automatic Detection of Immunogold Particles from Electron Microscopy Images....Pages 323-323 Specular Reflectance Suppression in Endoscopic Imagery via Stochastic Bayesian Estimation....Pages 377-384 Characterization of Medical Images Using Edge Density and Local Directional Pattern (LDP)....Pages 385-393 Automated Detection of Aortic Root Landmarks in Preprocedure CT Angiography Images for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Patients....Pages 394-401 Retinal Blood Vessels Differentiation for Calculation of Arterio-Venous Ratio....Pages 402-410 Graph Structuring of Skeleton Object for Its High-Level Exploitation....Pages 411-418 Front Matter....Pages 419-426 Vehicle Detection Using Approximation of Feature Pyramids in the DFT Domain....Pages 427-427 Real-Time Speed-Limit Sign Detection and Recognition Using Spatial Pyramid Feature and Boosted Random Forest....Pages 429-436 Automatic Nacre Thickness Measurement of Tahitian Pearls....Pages 437-445 Automated Wheat Disease Classification Under Controlled and Uncontrolled Image Acquisition....Pages 446-455 Color Space Identification for Image Display....Pages 456-464 Application of the General Shape Analysis in Determining the Class of Binary Object Silhouettes in the Video Surveillance System....Pages 465-472 Speedy Character Line Detection Algorithm Using Image Block-Based Histogram Analysis....Pages 473-480 Detecting Parked Vehicles in Static Images Using Simple Spectral Features in the ‘SM4Public’ System....Pages 481-488 Road Detection in Urban Areas Using Random Forest Tree-Based Ensemble Classification....Pages 489-498 Application of the Polar–Fourier Greyscale Descriptor to the Automatic Traffic Sign Recognition....Pages 499-505 Camera-Based Lane Marking Detection for ADAS and Autonomous Driving....Pages 506-513 Handling Inter-object Occlusion for Multi-object Tracking Based on Attraction Force Constraint....Pages 514-519 Indian Sign Language Recognition Using Kinect Sensor....Pages 520-527 Automatic Planning of Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery....Pages 528-535 Back Matter....Pages 536-540 ....Pages 541-543